Security Engineer

About Michael

Michael is a practicing cybersecurity professional and currently a Security Engineer at
Amazon Web Services on the Security Operations Team. Amazon Web Services offers reliable,
scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services. Michael is also a Signal Officer in
the
United States Army Reserve

Michael graduated
Augusta University (AU) and achieved a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Information
Systems & Technology with a Minor in Military Science. Michael is currently pursuing
a Masters of Science in Information Security Management.

While at Augusta University, Michael established the first Cyber Defense Team comprised of
students that went to regionals of the South Eastern Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition.
He also received a certificate from AU as an Information Assurance Defender. Michael also
holds various industry certifications in information security.

Michael has presented at many conferences like The National Cyber Summit, TakeDownCon, Hacker
Halted, and BSides Augusta. Michael has also participated in many Capture The Flag
(CTF) competitions from Booz Allen Hamilton's pyNight and CyberSim, as well as, SANS
NetWars.

One of Michael's strongest attributes is leadership. Michael has demonstrated leadership
in many situations throughout his life. Michael decided to enlist into the United States
Army Reserve during college. Michael commissioned as a Signal Officer in the United States
Army Reserve responsible for teams that install, employ, maintain, troubleshoot and assist
users with tactical battlefield signal support systems, terminal devices, tactical satellite
communications equipment and automated telecommunications computer systems, to include
local area networks, wide area networks, and routers.

STAR WARS Or star trek?

star wars... It's just something about the force...

Tabs or Spaces?

definitely Tabs, but my Tabs insert spaces

Editor?

vi

Language?

python

"Every problem can have multiple solutions. To see them you have to take a step bback and look at the
big picture. Don't limit yourself to just one route.
"

Skills

Vulnerability Analysis

Cloud Security Engineering

Digital Forensics

Network Security Monitoring

In the Information Security Industry Michael has kept engaged in many ways. He has participated
as a facilitator for SANS Institute conferences. Michael is also a member of the
Greater Augusta ISSA (Information Systems Security Association) and the Signal Corps
Regimental Association (SCRA)

Projects

Project Slam

Project Slam is an initiative to utilize open source programs, operating systems and tools
to aid in defending nefarious adversaries. The overall focus is to research adversary's behavior
and utilize the data that can be captured to generate wordlists, blacklists, and expose methodologies
of various threat actors that can be provided back to the public in a meaningful and useful
way.

When data is in Google Sheets, you can analyze the data through Sheets since it's basically Excel,
but you can also directly integrate that data into many services of the Google Cloud Platform
effortlessly like big query, data lab, and other analytical systems to perform things like
visualization.

LogSheets is a proof of concept to automate this transfer of logs into Google Sheets through
the API. Initially, it supports Kippo (SSH Attempts), but once you have a parser for the log
you can just invoke the Sheets API call and send the useful data from your logs to Google Sheets.